(08-28-2023, 10:54 AM)Mapokser Wrote: In another thread we were talking about inbreeding on Manyeleti and Timbavati, and I got to think about Sabi Sands and realized the Mangheni Pride is also somehow inbred:

As Londolozi puts it, the Tsalala pride was born when 2 Ximhungwe females broke away, carrying the cubs from the West Street Males.

*This image is copyright of its original author

Only one cub survived, the Original Tailless Tsalala BB, she's the ancestor of all the Tsalalas, Manghenis and Kambulas alive today:

*This image is copyright of its original author

https://blog.londolozi.com/2021/12/07/the-legacy-of-the-tsalala-pride/

According to Elephant Plains, BB is the mother of 2 of the original Manghenis:

*This image is copyright of its original author

https://www.elephantplains.co.za/big-5-blog/2012/12/rangers-report-november-2012/

The mothers of the Manghenis were BB's half-brothers, the Mapogos. The other 2 Manghenis were daughters of BB's daughters with their Mapogo uncles.

Now, currently, the new cubs are from total unrelated males, but there is a coalition of four 4,5-5yo  Kambula Males just east of the Mangheni's territory, these males are grandsons of the 2 remaining original females, and nephews of the 3 younger females. So one more reason to hope the Kambulas don't target the Mangheni pride, though I'm afraid there's quite a good chance they will, since they probably won't target their natal pride east of them, and they aside the Mangheni is the next big pride around.

Hopefully though, they'll go for Talamatis, Nkuhumas, or even leave SS, though I doubt they will, they spent their entire nomadic life there after all, and considering their barely older brothers are already dominant males despite lacking the western Kambulas numbers, it's quite possible the Kambulas will start showing territorial behavior soon.

(08-28-2023, 10:54 AM)Mapokser Wrote: In another thread we were talking about inbreeding on Manyeleti and Timbavati, and I got to think about Sabi Sands and realized the Mangheni Pride is also somehow inbred:

As Londolozi puts it, the Tsalala pride was born when 2 Ximhungwe females broke away, carrying the cubs from the West Street Males.

*This image is copyright of its original author

Only one cub survived, the Original Tailless Tsalala BB, she's the ancestor of all the Tsalalas, Manghenis and Kambulas alive today:

*This image is copyright of its original author

https://blog.londolozi.com/2021/12/07/the-legacy-of-the-tsalala-pride/

According to Elephant Plains, BB is the mother of 2 of the original Manghenis:

*This image is copyright of its original author

https://www.elephantplains.co.za/big-5-blog/2012/12/rangers-report-november-2012/

The mothers of the Manghenis were BB's half-brothers, the Mapogos. The other 2 Manghenis were daughters of BB's daughters with their Mapogo uncles.

Now, currently, the new cubs are from total unrelated males, but there is a coalition of four 4,5-5yo  Kambula Males just east of the Mangheni's territory, these males are grandsons of the 2 remaining original females, and nephews of the 3 younger females. So one more reason to hope the Kambulas don't target the Mangheni pride, though I'm afraid there's quite a good chance they will, since they probably won't target their natal pride east of them, and they aside the Mangheni is the next big pride around.

Hopefully though, they'll go for Talamatis, Nkuhumas, or even leave SS, though I doubt they will, they spent their entire nomadic life there after all, and considering their barely older brothers are already dominant males despite lacking the western Kambulas numbers, it's quite possible the Kambulas will start showing territorial behavior soon.

(08-28-2023, 07:37 PM)NLAL11 Wrote:

(08-28-2023, 10:54 AM)Mapokser Wrote: In another thread we were talking about inbreeding on Manyeleti and Timbavati, and I got to think about Sabi Sands and realized the Mangheni Pride is also somehow inbred:

As Londolozi puts it, the Tsalala pride was born when 2 Ximhungwe females broke away, carrying the cubs from the West Street Males.

*This image is copyright of its original author

Only one cub survived, the Original Tailless Tsalala BB, she's the ancestor of all the Tsalalas, Manghenis and Kambulas alive today:

*This image is copyright of its original author

https://blog.londolozi.com/2021/12/07/the-legacy-of-the-tsalala-pride/

According to Elephant Plains, BB is the mother of 2 of the original Manghenis:

*This image is copyright of its original author

https://www.elephantplains.co.za/big-5-blog/2012/12/rangers-report-november-2012/

The mothers of the Manghenis were BB's half-brothers, the Mapogos. The other 2 Manghenis were daughters of BB's daughters with their Mapogo uncles.

Now, currently, the new cubs are from total unrelated males, but there is a coalition of four 4,5-5yo  Kambula Males just east of the Mangheni's territory, these males are grandsons of the 2 remaining original females, and nephews of the 3 younger females. So one more reason to hope the Kambulas don't target the Mangheni pride, though I'm afraid there's quite a good chance they will, since they probably won't target their natal pride east of them, and they aside the Mangheni is the next big pride around.

Hopefully though, they'll go for Talamatis, Nkuhumas, or even leave SS, though I doubt they will, they spent their entire nomadic life there after all, and considering their barely older brothers are already dominant males despite lacking the western Kambulas numbers, it's quite possible the Kambulas will start showing territorial behavior soon.

This kind of this probably happens quite a lot. According to Kevin Richardson (The Lion Whisperer), lions can actually handle a few generations of inbreeding before genetic problems begin to occur.

But yes, it would be best if the Kambula Males looked somewhere else. Tinya is even their half-sibling/cousin. I think, though, that the PC males are aggressive and intimidating enough to see off a group of inexperienced males like the Kambulas, even if they do have double the numbers.

It's good that the PC males have arrived, as they are totally unrelated to any of the prides in the area. Although as descendents of the Mantimale males are now mating with prides in the east, west and south, they may become the new WS males, and in another generation or two we'll have the same problem.

(08-28-2023, 10:54 AM)Mapokser Wrote: In another thread we were talking about inbreeding on Manyeleti and Timbavati, and I got to think about Sabi Sands and realized the Mangheni Pride is also somehow inbred:

As Londolozi puts it, the Tsalala pride was born when 2 Ximhungwe females broke away, carrying the cubs from the West Street Males.

*This image is copyright of its original author

Only one cub survived, the Original Tailless Tsalala BB, she's the ancestor of all the Tsalalas, Manghenis and Kambulas alive today:

*This image is copyright of its original author

https://blog.londolozi.com/2021/12/07/the-legacy-of-the-tsalala-pride/

According to Elephant Plains, BB is the mother of 2 of the original Manghenis:

*This image is copyright of its original author

https://www.elephantplains.co.za/big-5-blog/2012/12/rangers-report-november-2012/

The mothers of the Manghenis were BB's half-brothers, the Mapogos. The other 2 Manghenis were daughters of BB's daughters with their Mapogo uncles.

Now, currently, the new cubs are from total unrelated males, but there is a coalition of four 4,5-5yo  Kambula Males just east of the Mangheni's territory, these males are grandsons of the 2 remaining original females, and nephews of the 3 younger females. So one more reason to hope the Kambulas don't target the Mangheni pride, though I'm afraid there's quite a good chance they will, since they probably won't target their natal pride east of them, and they aside the Mangheni is the next big pride around.

Hopefully though, they'll go for Talamatis, Nkuhumas, or even leave SS, though I doubt they will, they spent their entire nomadic life there after all, and considering their barely older brothers are already dominant males despite lacking the western Kambulas numbers, it's quite possible the Kambulas will start showing territorial behavior soon.

(08-29-2023, 12:08 AM)Mapokser Wrote: @criollo2mil yeah true, iirc there were 8 cubs in 2009, not sure if from 2 or 3 litters, but there's also the possibility that BB's Tsalala daughters had WSM as grandfathers from both sides.

WSM controlled the Ximhungwe pride, and the Othawa Pride ( where Split Rocks come from ) lived close by. Split Rocks sired BB's daughters.

Some say Split Rocks resembled WSM a lot, if they were sired by WSM it'd add more inbreeding anyway.

(08-28-2023, 11:58 PM)Mapokser Wrote: @Tylermartin! 

Yep. Also if the Southern female ia the daughter of Charleston instead of 4ways, there's also a little bit more of inbreeding because the Charleston females in the 2000 were sisters of the Rollercoasters.

But still within Manghenis I forget mentioning some claim ( though without real evidence ) that Split Rocks were sired by WSM. Split Rocks were fathers of the 2 Tsalalas mothers of at least 2 Manghenis.

And I also forgot that if Kambulas ever take the pride, they are actually brothers to the youngest Mangheni female.

(08-29-2023, 12:42 AM)BA0701 Wrote:

(08-28-2023, 11:58 PM)Mapokser Wrote: @Tylermartin! 

Yep. Also if the Southern female ia the daughter of Charleston instead of 4ways, there's also a little bit more of inbreeding because the Charleston females in the 2000 were sisters of the Rollercoasters.

But still within Manghenis I forget mentioning some claim ( though without real evidence ) that Split Rocks were sired by WSM. Split Rocks were fathers of the 2 Tsalalas mothers of at least 2 Manghenis.

And I also forgot that if Kambulas ever take the pride, they are actually brothers to the youngest Mangheni female.

Tinya is the daughter of the Birminghams?

(08-29-2023, 12:25 AM)Tylermartin! Wrote:

(08-29-2023, 12:08 AM)Mapokser Wrote: @criollo2mil yeah true, iirc there were 8 cubs in 2009, not sure if from 2 or 3 litters, but there's also the possibility that BB's Tsalala daughters had WSM as grandfathers from both sides.

WSM controlled the Ximhungwe pride, and the Othawa Pride ( where Split Rocks come from ) lived close by. Split Rocks sired BB's daughters.

Some say Split Rocks resembled WSM a lot, if they were sired by WSM it'd add more inbreeding anyway.

I believe at the time the tsalala pride had 3 females two sister and an older female the 4 mapogo daughters are daughters of the two sisters

(08-29-2023, 12:42 AM)BA0701 Wrote:

(08-28-2023, 11:58 PM)Mapokser Wrote: @Tylermartin! 

Yep. Also if the Southern female ia the daughter of Charleston instead of 4ways, there's also a little bit more of inbreeding because the Charleston females in the 2000 were sisters of the Rollercoasters.

But still within Manghenis I forget mentioning some claim ( though without real evidence ) that Split Rocks were sired by WSM. Split Rocks were fathers of the 2 Tsalalas mothers of at least 2 Manghenis.

And I also forgot that if Kambulas ever take the pride, they are actually brothers to the youngest Mangheni female.

Tinya is the daughter of the Birminghams?

(08-30-2023, 05:38 AM)RookiePundit Wrote:

(08-29-2023, 12:42 AM)BA0701 Wrote:

(08-28-2023, 11:58 PM)Mapokser Wrote: @Tylermartin! 

Yep. Also if the Southern female ia the daughter of Charleston instead of 4ways, there's also a little bit more of inbreeding because the Charleston females in the 2000 were sisters of the Rollercoasters.

But still within Manghenis I forget mentioning some claim ( though without real evidence ) that Split Rocks were sired by WSM. Split Rocks were fathers of the 2 Tsalalas mothers of at least 2 Manghenis.

And I also forgot that if Kambulas ever take the pride, they are actually brothers to the youngest Mangheni female.

Tinya is the daughter of the Birminghams?

Yup, it is in the name, supposed to be named that after Tinyo :) (assuming parentage I guess not sure what is behind that claim)

(08-30-2023, 05:43 AM)BA0701 Wrote:

(08-30-2023, 05:38 AM)RookiePundit Wrote:

(08-29-2023, 12:42 AM)BA0701 Wrote:

(08-28-2023, 11:58 PM)Mapokser Wrote: @Tylermartin! 

Yep. Also if the Southern female ia the daughter of Charleston instead of 4ways, there's also a little bit more of inbreeding because the Charleston females in the 2000 were sisters of the Rollercoasters.

But still within Manghenis I forget mentioning some claim ( though without real evidence ) that Split Rocks were sired by WSM. Split Rocks were fathers of the 2 Tsalalas mothers of at least 2 Manghenis.

And I also forgot that if Kambulas ever take the pride, they are actually brothers to the youngest Mangheni female.

Tinya is the daughter of the Birminghams?

Yup, it is in the name, supposed to be named that after Tinyo :) (assuming parentage I guess not sure what is behind that claim)

It is funny, I actually had a chuckle right after @criollo2mil posted that, it suddenly dawned on me. Dense sometimes I suppose.